In her art and design practice, Kohl Tyler (b.1993) contemplates notions of ephemerality, interconnectedness and employs speculative frameworks. Drawing from both physical and phenomenal elements, she processes ecological grief and posits future material and biological ecologies. She works primarily in ceramics and occasionally in watercolour painting, and social practice.
Kohl Tyler is an Aotearoa/New Zealand-born artist who’s been based in Naarm/Melbourne since 2018.
She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Whitecliffe College of Art and Design in 2016 and was awarded the Artist Alliance Graduate Award in 2016. In 2017, she won the Estuary Art and Ecology Award at Malcolm Smith Gallery in Auckland, NZ. In 2024, she won the Ominia Art Award’s People’s Choice Prize. In 2025, she was a finalist in the National Gallery of Victoria’s Rigg Design Prize.
She has presented solo exhibitions in Aotearoa and Australia including; Of Bodies into Novel Shapes, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, VIC (2025), To Return To,Craft Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, All is Ephemeral, FELTspace, Adelaide, SA (2024), and Moving Past the Sun, Weasel Gallery, Hamilton, NZ (2020). Recent group exhibitions include Ceramics Now, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, VIC (2024) and Ceramics, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC (2024). In 2022 she presented Offerings, a social art installation held at the UNESCO heritage-listed Carlton Gardens in Narrm, Australia, supported by the City of Melbourne Art Grants.
Her work is held in the collection of the Geelong Gallery (VIC) and the Gippsland Art Gallery (VIC). In 2026, she is presenting work at Aotearoa Artfair (NZ), Three Days of Design Copenhagen (DK), and the National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennale (AU). She is represented by MARS Gallery (AUS).
